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Bromsgroveia

Extinct genus of reptiles

Extinct genus of reptiles

  • B. walkeri Galton, 1985 (type)

Bromsgroveia is an extinct genus of predatory ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Bromsgrove Sandstone of England. Ctenosauriscids were a group of rauisuchians that was related to the ancestors of modern crocodiles and alligators.

Classification

Bromsgroveia was closely related to Ctenosauriscus, and together with a few other genera they make up Ctenosauriscidae. The ctenosauriscids were closely related to the poposaurids, as shown by a few shared derived characteristics. The pelvic girdle in Bromsgroveia unites this taxon with Ctenosauriscus, Lotosaurus, Arizonasaurus, and Hypselorhachus.

Below is a phylogenetic cladogram simplified from Butler et al. in 2011 showing the cladistics of Archosauriformes, focusing mostly on Pseudosuchia:

References

References

  1. Nesbitt, S.J.. (2003). "''Arizonasaurus'' and its implications for archosaur divergence". Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
  2. Nesbitt, S.J.. (2005). "Osteology of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur ''Arizonasaurus babbitti''". Historical Biology.
  3. (2011). "The Sail-Backed Reptile ''Ctenosauriscus'' from the Latest Early Triassic of Germany and the Timing and Biogeography of the Early Archosaur Radiation". PLOS ONE.
  4. (1985). "The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus v. Meyer, plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs, from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwürttemberg.". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie).
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